Drove the family down to Falkirk today. Stopped at Culloden to pick up a "Radio Flyer" trolley to cart the kids about in.
We used to travel around 80km/h as this felt safer, easy on the car and less noisy at this speed.
Today was mostly 110km/h, effortlessly and comparatively quiet.
I've done a lot of work on her since I bought her in July last year.
All of the work was necessary and has taken me 10 months to catch up to a point where i van now maintain and spend money on wants, rather than needs.
If I had know as much then as I do now, I'd have knocked another grand off the price.
What have I done over the last ten months?
tyres needed immediately.
nsf cv boots
nsf & osf bearings
eng oil
trans oil
transfer box oil
front and rear axle oil
front and rear pads
osr brake cable
nsf and osf ball joints
rear springs
all filters
coolant change
brake fluid change
rear drop links
turbo pipe
A bit of welding.
Yes there's consumables in there, but these needed sorting straight away. The list isn't in order.
The result today was a smooth ride with strong push from the now breathing correctly engine. It's night and day from when i didnt know better and forst bought her.
Further results were around 5mpg improvement on the same journey mostly travelling 30km/h faster.
Distance of 267 miles
40 litres of fuel used
equates to:
30.35 mpg
9.31 L/100km
10.74 KPL
I'm impressed and happy that she seems to be as she should be